Modern privacy regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the
European Union, aim to control user tracking activities in websites and mobile applications …

Websites that provide books, music, movies, and other media free of charge are a central
piece of the web ecosystem, although they are vastly unexplored, especially for their security …

This article explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of
22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third-party. Tracking on …

Privacy seems to be the Achilles' heel of today's web. Most web services make continuous
efforts to track their users and to obtain as much personal information as they can from the …

This article provides a quantitative analysis of privacy-compromising mechanisms on 1
million popular websites. Findings indicate that nearly 9 in 10 websites leak user data to …

This articles surveys the existing literature on the methods currently used by web services to
track the user online as well as their purposes, implications, and possible user's defenses. A …

Web measurement is a powerful approach to studying various tracking practices that may
compromise the privacy of millions of users. Researchers have built several measurement …

Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web
privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers …

Web pornography represents a large fraction of the Internet traffic, with thousands of
websites and millions of users. Studying web pornography consumption allows …

Tracking is pervasive on the web. Third party trackers acquire user data through information
leak from websites, and user browsing history using cookies and device fingerprinting. In …